Cosmic Conversations
The Cosmic Conversations project started in 2020 to bring together members from the Association for the Research and Practice in the Humanities’ Research Group in the Ecology of Practices (Grupo de Pesquisa em Ecologia das Práticas or GPEP) and researchers from other groups and institutions whose trajectories intersect with its members own investigative pathways. Active since 2016, GPEP holds recurrent open meetings dedicated to interdisciplinary debates around ecological, artistic, political, and philosophical issues. In 2018, GPEP began organizing larger events and in 2020 created the Cosmic Conversations series of talks. These conversations are open-ended meetings that are broadcast live and aim to provide a spontaneous but rigorous dive into subjects pertaining to the group’s current concerns. Since 2021, Cosmic Conversations have been co-convened with the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), and the Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in the context of the Anthropocene Curriculum as a way to foster and enrich the ongoing dialogues between different nodes of the AC network.
- projectGrupo de Pesquisa em Ecologia das Práticas, Fernando Silva e Silva
Cosmic Conversations 2022
Conversations on the question of habitability and the task of keeping the Earth hospitable.
Conversation, Reflection, Care, Species, Ecology, Scale, Environmental Justice
- projectGrupo de Pesquisa em Ecologia das Práticas, Fernando Silva e Silva
Cosmic Conversations 2021
Conversations on a multispecies approach to pandemics, the Anthropocene concept, and the visualization of knowledge.
Conversation, Reflection, Species, Human-animal relations, Agriculture, Anthropos, Epistemology, Knowledge infrastructure, Knowledge production, Knowledge transformation
- projectGrupo de Pesquisa em Ecologia das Práticas, Fernando Silva e Silva
Cosmic Conversations 2020
Six Brazilian researchers from different areas talk about ways of approaching the brutal effects of climate change.
Conversation, Reflection, Climate change, Ecology, Agriculture, Species, Environmental Justice, Settler Colonialism